Mar 10 2026 to Mar 10 2026 6:30 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

The world changes, life is hard. That’s not news.

But are millennials uniquely misunderstood, or simply the first generation to document their own confusion so thoroughly?

Deepika Arwind, author of Good Arguments, and AM Gautam, author of Indian Millennials, write from opposite ends of the same experience. One through fiction, the other through reportage. Both millennial. Both wrestling with power dynamics, divided loyalties, and what courage looks like when you have one foot in the old world and one inching towards the future.

This conversation, moderated by Arundhati Sridhar, is not about generational angst. It is about the structures we inherit and the space we carve out anyway. 

Readings. Insights. The occasional uncomfortable truth. 

Bring your questions.

Speakers

Deepika Arwind
Author
Deepika Arwind is an international, award-winning playwright, writer and performer based between Berlin and Bangalore. She always wanted to say she divides her time between two places, but it’s a much less glamorous idea than it sounds.

Her work looks at etching a psychological and emotional map of gender and politics in the current (already moving) moment. Her theatre has been performed in various countries including the UAE, USA, UK and Singapore, and of course, across India and Germany and her most recent work include Phantasmagoria (UK, Kali Theatre 2023), I speak to Sita (Forecast Forum, 2025), This Thing is about Everything (Stuttgart, 2023, 2024, Munich 2025), and Why I want to be White (English Theater, Berlin 2026). Phantasmagoria will have its Swiss premiere in Bern in August 2026.

She is the recipient of various fellowships and residencies including most recently Weltoffenes Berlin. In 2026, she will be one of six mentors from around the world at the prestigious ITI Academy for Theater Der Welt, Chemnitz. She is also the author of the children’s book Sarayu.

Good Arguments is her debut novel and draws from her 15 years experience in the theatre. It has been described in The Wire as, “an anthem for young urban women” and in Luru magazine as a “promising debut” with humour, and delightful for its local English on paper.

A M Gautam
Author
A.M Gautam is the author of Indian Millennials: Who Are They, Really? His fiction has appeared in prestigious anthologies like A Case of Indian Marvels, The Greatest Indian Stories Ever Told, and 100 Indian Stories: A Feast of Remarkable Short Fiction from the 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries.

His literary interests lie primarily in speculative fiction, cultural commentary, and personal essays. He moonlights as a columnist sometimes, and has written for Deccan Herald, Scroll, Hindustan Times, The Federal, and various other publications in India and elsewhere.

Arundhati Sridhar
Activist, Facilitator & Podcaster
Arundhati is a feminist activist, facilitator, and podcaster who has spent over a decade working with feminist and queer movements across India and internationally. Her work focuses on understanding how movements organise, how women, trans, and non-binary human rights defenders build collective power, and how communities respond to political backlash and social change. She currently collaborates with multiple feminist organisations, consortiums, and collectives – including GenderSphere and We Are Feminist Leaders – to co-create knowledges and design spaces of learning, sharing and transformation for feminist movements globally.
Alongside her research and facilitation work with civil society organisations and global feminist networks, Arundhati is deeply interested in the stories we tell about ourselves and our generation. She also produced and co-hosted two seasons of Fursat Feminism, a podcast exploring the everyday joys, frustrations, and contradictions of feminist life in South Asia. As a millennial feminist, she often finds herself asking questions of identity, belonging, and the intergenerational shifts shaping the Indian feminist movement. Unsurprisingly, conversations like this one – where stories, ideas, and lived experiences collide – have a bit of a moth-to-flame effect on her.